This thread is dedicated to information about the timing of different aspects of the abrogation issue in Islamic history. When rather than who is what concerns us here, e.g., when was it that the first verse in the text of the Quran that is considered abrogated so considered?

I thought that listing the chronological order of revelation is pertinent here. Bear in mind that the order shown below is the majority opinion but there were other opinions suggested. Also, some verses were inserted by direction of the Prophet (PBUH) into prior chapters. Therefore, if Chapter A was revealed before Chapter B, that is not automatically proof that verses in A cannot abrogate verses in B, but mostly that is true.

I hadn't realized this before, but the last of the top scholars of Fiqh was also the first of the top scholars of Hadeeth, but he died 15 years before the most prominent scholar of Hadeeth, Al-Bukhaari, may God have been pleased with all the above scholars.

Al-Jabri states on page 99 of his book, under the heading "The origin of claiming Quranic abrogation" that Imam Al-Shafeiy devised the rule of the abrogating and the abrogated, citing his famous book Al-Resala. He does not mention Abu-Haneefa and the others before Al-Shafeiy. I find the statement to be ill phrased at best. He probably means that Al-Shafeiy was the first to install a discipline governing the abrogating and abrogated. Then again, Al-Shafeiy was the first to install a discipline governing Islamic scholarship, period.

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